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Nothing but net It's March, so there is Madness. Even with all that's going on around the region, the state, the nation and the world, this is the time of year when so much seems to take a back seat to basketball. Three teams from our commonwealth made the NCAA Tournament field — Hampton as a long-shot 16 seed, U.Va. as a very strong 2, and Virginia Commonwealth in between as a 7. The selection committee was kind enough to put them all in different regions so that, however briefly, we could fantasize about all three meeting in the Final Four. (Our pick out of the Virginia-free South Region? South Dakota State, because we love the nickname Jackrabbits.) So for the next...

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It's March, so there is Madness. Even with all that's going on around the region, the state, the nation and the world, this is the time of year when so much seems to take a back seat to basketball.
Three teams from our commonwealth...

This weekend's Final Four is more old school than a two-handed set shot. Past champions, power conferences, oversized budgets. Kentucky, Wisconsin, Florida, Connecticut.
This was not preordained. Wichita State was absolutely Kentucky's equal, and the...

It goes all the way back to the 1930s, when Lana Turner’s road to stardom began because a Hollywood heavyweight spotted her at a soda counter in a Sunset Boulevard restaurant. Sometimes it just helps for a girl to be in the right place at the right time....

The names of Lafayette High track standouts are showing up increasingly on leaderboards on the local, state and national levels.
Adriana Hooks recently ran 10 minutes, 49.41 seconds at the Raleigh Relays in North Carolina, the best time run by a...

Wake Forest’s 1955 NCAA baseball championship was the fledgling ACC’s third national title of any variety, following Maryland’s in football (1953) and men’s lacrosse (’55). Conference teams have since won 134 national championships in 17 sports.
None...

For one half, William and Mary looked capable of winning a road game against a team that reach the Final Four last season.In the second half, though, No. 16 Wichita State wore down the Tribe and gained a 79-62 triumph Thursday in Kansas.Marcus Thornton...

Basketball fans in town from Virginia now have two teams to pull for on Saturday: Virginia Commonwealth against Indiana and Louisville's opponent, New Mexico.Cardinals' coach Rick Pitino may have added to his team's anti-fan base Friday when asked about...

During Final Four week, Colonial Athletic Association commissioner Tom Yeager and other principals forcefully denied a CBSSports.com report that league basketball powers VCU and George Mason might move to the Atlantic 10.Less than a month later, some very...

VCU was 90th on the Rating Percentage Index on Feb. 1. Translation: Zero NCAA tournament at-large chance.
The Rams were 80th on Feb. 15. From zero to marginal in two weeks. Progress but not about to trend on Twitter.
This morning, per CollegeRPI.com,...

VCU enters the NCAA tournament with a 26-8 record, not quite as glossy as last season, when the Rams were 28-6. Yet VCU is a No. 5 seed, light years better than last year’s No. 12.
Coach Shaka Smart knows why.
“A lot of people don’t talk about this, but...

Taylor Hilton scored a career-high 23 points to spark William and Mary to an 88-76 victory over Austin Peay in the UTSA Thanksgiving Classic in Texas.The Tribe (2-3) jumped to an 18-2 lead and never was threatened.Janine Aldridge added 22 points and Emily...

Bank on another anxious Selection Sunday for ACC and Colonial Athletic Association basketball fans, coaches and players. Neither conference will match its record qualifiers for the NCAA tournament field – three for the CAA and seven for the ACC. Nor will...

After more than a week of conference championship craziness, finally a bid thief: St. Bonaventure of the Atlantic 10 this afternoon became the first surprise winner of a league tournament to swipe a bid from a bubble team.The fourth-seeded Bonnies...

As suspected, Virginia was comfortably in the NCAA tournament field. The Cavaliers' opening game Friday against two-time national champion Florida in Omaha, Neb., will not approach comfortable.
"They have elite talent," Virginia coach Tony...

VCU and the Colonial Athletic Association came oh-so-close to history this basketball season. One more stop Saturday night against Indiana, or one more three, and the Rams would have reached the NCAA tournament’s Sweet 16 for the second consecutive year....

Notre Dame's march through March is picking up speed.
Demetrius Jackson scored 20 points and the third-seeded Irish dominated Wichita State, 81-70, in the Midwest Regional semifinals on Thursday night to advance to the Elite Eight for the first time in...

Bo Ryan is no fan of change. He said so himself answering the question — "What's the most important change your team needs to make here?" — as he left the locker room to start the second half, down by two to North Carolina in Thursday's Sweet 16...

CLEVELAND Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall pulled seniors Tekele Cotton and Darius Carter with 20 seconds to play and hugged both of them. A few seconds later, the Shockers walked off the court to cheers from their fans. Wichita State rarely faces...

CLEVELAND — The evisceration seems to happen out of nowhere with little warning or little regard for opponents' safety.
Like a ninja overpowering its foe with successive slashes and combinations, Notre Dame's offense has had bursts of pure devastation...

Kentucky still has a shot at history. Tom Izzo has Michigan State on another deep March run. Former mid-major monsters Gonzaga and Wichita State are still going strong. OK, so maybe we won't get to see another celebratory fall by Georgia State's Ron...